After find a book on physics, Beast Boy experiments on the laws of gravity eventually prompting Raven to help him. After that one proves successful, Beast Boy invites Raven to conduct another one with him: This one dealing with opposites attracting. RxBB

Disclaimer: If I
owned Teen Titans then...wow, that'd be awesome. But I don't so
that's not awesome.

I made this one-shot a
while ago. It's rather dry in humor and romance compared to some of
my other stories but the idea popped into my head so, eh, I went with
it. I decided to write a one-shot focused on one of my favorite
topics from Physics: putting cesium in water and watching it explode!

...Oh wait. That's
chemistry. Sorry.

She watched him. He had
been out here for quite a while, jumping off the roof no less. Why he
was doing this she didn't know. Of course, it's not like she had
never wished that he would do this at some point in her life, but now
actually seeing it wasn't as amusing as she thought it would be.

After several more
jumps off, Beast Boy finally seemed to notice her presence.

"Oh hey." he
acknowledged her. "What brings you up here?"

"I saw a green goat
fall past my window." Raven said. "A minute later a green pig
fell, followed by a green bull, green hawk, and a green...I don't
even know what the last one was, but the point is why are you jumping
off the roof?" Beast Boy smiled.

"I'm just taking
your advice, Raven." he said.

"When I told you to
jump off the roof it was more of a threat than advice." Raven
replied, taking distaste in his stupidity. Could he not distinguish a
threat from advice?

Chuckling, Beast Boy
said, "No, not that. Some other 'advice' you gave me."
Raven's eyebrow rose.

"Which would be...?"
Reaching down, Beast Boy pulled a small book up and showed it to her.

"You said I should
start reading more. Make myself smarter." Raven looked down at the
cover to the book.

"'Introduction to
Physics'?" she asked, questionably. "As shocking as it is to
hear you taking my advice, your taste in reading material is more
surprising."

"Well seeing as you
keep all of your books under lock and key, the only other place I
knew to get books in the Tower was the research library." Beast Boy
explained. "'Course I forgot that they were all school-type books
and like ones with lots of numbers and stuff. Then I found this book
and it looked sorta interesting. It at least had some pictures in
it."

"That's very
fascinating and everything," Raven interrupted, "but what does
that book have to do with you jumping off the roof?"

"I'm getting to
that." he told her. "I started reading the book and it was
actually pretty interesting. Well yeah, some of it put me to sleep,
but like some of the stuff they explained made me really think. Like
instead of throwing my stank ball really hard and high at Cyborg when
he's far away and always having it fall short, I gotta throw it at
a 45 degree angle to get the maximum distance."

Raven smiled. "As
much as I'm not so enthralled with how you're planning on using
your new found information, I'm still very impressed with you
overall." She frowned. "But you still haven't explained why
you're jumping off the roof."

"Oh, that." Beast
Boy picked up the rock and a ping-pong ball that were near his feet.
"One chapter in this book explained the whole 'gravity' thing.
Like what it is and what it does. One thing they said I really didn't
believe so I wanted to see if it was right."

"Oh?"

"It said things of
different mass still fall at the same speed towards the ground 'cause
of gravity." Beast Boy explained. "I know that I could, like,
just drop a ping-pong ball and a rock at waist height," reaching
up, he did just that, "but I wasn't convinced. I figured that if
the rock and the ping-pong ball got more air-time then the rock would
totally beat the ball. So I decided that if I dropped them from the
roof of the Tower that that would totally be a lot of air time." He
sighed. "But there's a problem."

"What's that?"
Raven asked. She always knew Beast Boy was a curious person, but this
scientifically based curiosity brought him to a whole new level in
her eyes. He had more intellect that she gave him credit for.

"There has to be
someone up at the top dropping them at the same height, right? Well,
I wanna do that so I know that they get dropped at the exact same
height. But then I wanna be on the bottom too so I can actually get
to see them collide on the ground at the exact same moment. The
problem is that I can't get there fast enough. I've tried
everything. Free falling, dropping them higher, flying to the ground,
and changing into bigger animals. Everything! And even if I get to
the ground before them, I can't get into position fast enough to
see them collide at the exact moment 'cause it goes by too fast.
I'm just not fast enough."

He hung his head down
in disappointment, turning to look over the edge towards the rocky
ground below. "I give up." he said with another sigh, tossing the
rock and ball off the roof. Just as he was about to turn around to
leave, he felt an arm wrap around his waist and pull him backwards
into a black abyss, blue cloth fluttering over his head. When the
darkness cleared, he found himself standing at the base of the Tower,
a whizzing noise falling from above. Looking, Beast Boy glanced just
in time to see the accelerating ping-pong ball and rock fall towards
the Earth and indeed, they collided at the exact same time with the
ground. The small thud from the impact rang quietly in his elfin
ears. Turning to his right, he grinned at his demonic teammate.

"Thanks Raven." She
smiled back.

"I'm always glad to
help for a noble cause and the sake of learning is one of the top
things on my list." Raven replied.

"I'm glad you feel
that way." Beast Boy said, reaching down to pocket the ping-pong
ball. "Because there was another thing that book said that didn't
convince me and I'd like your help."

"And what would that
be?"

"Whether or not
opposites attract." he replied, a different type of smile on his
face and a twinkle in his eyes. It took Raven a moment to realize
what he meant.

"Oh." she
responded, a little taken back by the question. "I don't know..."

"Did you just finish
saying you're always glad to help if it's for a noble cause like
learning?" Beast Boy said. "I'm totally interested in seeing
whether or not this holds true. Besides," he continued, a smile on
his face, "I know at least it applies to one of the opposing sides.
Now I just need to find out if it applies to the other."

"...It might apply."
Raven said at last, "but there would have to be a test to see if it
does."

"I know of a place
that would be great for...experimentation." Beast Boy said, very
happy in the way the conversation was going.

"Awesome." He
turned to leave. "I'm going to go grab some materials in
preparation for the experiment and start writing a procedure so
things go smoothly, you know?" He left. Raven stood alone on the
roof. She picked up the book Beast Boy had dropped from where it lay.
She flipped it to the part about magnets which was bookmarked with a
pencil. On the introductory page to the chapter there was a picture
of one, only Beast Boy had made changes to it. The 'N' and 'S'
had been changed to they now resembled names. More specifically, her
name and his. Above the picture there was a caption that read
'Opposites Attract' and a question mark Beast Boy had penciled
in.

Taking the pencil out
of the crevice of the book, Raven erased the question mark. In its
place she put the words 'most definitely' and closed it. A small
smile found itself on her lips as she turned to leave the roof. She
hoped that their experiment was a success.

I have exams coming up
next week so I'll take any good luck wishes you guys have to offer.
After exams I have my 5 weeks of winter break so expect something to
happen with Tower then. I'm currently angry at the upcoming
chapter for being so gosh darn hard to write! Ugh.

Please review and have
a nice day!

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